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9 hours ago

Hawks Build 2-0 Series Advantage over Pistons

Mar. 22, 1963 - Just before he tore a copy of the box score in small pieces, Detroit Piston coach Dick McGuire jabbed his finger at two names in the St. Louis Hawks' lineup. "Those two guys -- Pettit and Bridges -- kept the ball alive for St. Louis under the basket," said the disheartened coach. "They gave their club that second chance to score. Those are the rebounds that hurt." Because Bob Pettit (pictured) and Bill Bridges shoved and shouldered their way to 34 rebounds bet

12 hours ago

DiMaggio Impressed by Yankee Youth

Mar. 22, 1963 - Far removed from the tumult and the shouting, Joe DiMaggio is having the time of his life while doing some important work in the game that made him famous. The famed Yankee Clipper currently is serving as a sort of professor emeritus in the training camp of the world champion Yankees. He doesn’t work with the stars. “After all,” says Joe with a grin, “when they’ve won as many world championships as so many of them have, there isn’t much an old gaffer like me c

13 hours ago

New Featherweight Champion Despairs Over Davey Moore’s Condition

Mar. 22, 1963 - “What can you do about destiny?” Sugar Ramos (pictured last night), who was unable to sleep until 6 a.m. this morning, asked the question as he tried to make sense out of what happened last night. He became the world’s featherweight boxing champion by knocking out Davey Moore, who is now in a coma fighting for his life. “Fighters go in the ring to win,” the Cuban fighter said slowly in Spanish, his only language. “But we’re all comrades — we’re not out to hurt

14 hours ago

Dethroned Featherweight Davey Moore Fights For His Life

Mar. 22, 1963 - Davey Moore fought for his life today, still unconscious after having been knocked out by Sugar Ramos in the fight for the featherweight boxing title last night in Los Angeles (pictured). The 29-year-old dethroned champion’s condition remained critical at White Memorial Hospital. A team of neurosurgeons reported apparent damage to the stem and lower area of Moore’s brain. Moore’s coma appeared to be deepening, according to a hospital bulletin issued this eveni

15 hours ago

TV: Tonight on “Rawhide”

Mar. 22, 1963 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” the drovers find two stranded nuns (Virginia Gregg and Nina Shipman) who rescued a Comanchero (Robert Loggia) from a torture apparatus. As the man slowly recovers from his ordeal, the new Comanchero leader tells the drovers he wants the man back. Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) has to decide whether to protect him. 7:30 p.m. on CBS. #tv #classictv #1960s #hollywood #CBS

17 hours ago

Welterweight Rodriguez Tops Griffith In 15-Round Decision

Mar. 22, 1963 - A jubilant Luis Rodriguez thought he won the fight and world welterweight title, and an embittered Emile Griffith figured he was still the champ in a shadow-boxing exhibition with scribes after last night’s battle at Dodger Stadium. Rodriguez won a popular 15-round decision over the New Yorker to take over the welterweight title. “I didn’t try for a knockout,” said Rodriguez. “I waited three years, and I wanted to win a unanimous decision to prove I’m the best

1 day ago

🚨Featherweight Davey Moore Hospitalized After Losing Title

Mar. 21, 1963 - Davey Moore (right), dethroned featherweight champion, was taken unconscious by ambulance tonight to White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles an hour after he was knocked out in the 10th round by Sugar Ramos at Dodger Stadium. Ramos, coming back twice from near destruction, had scored a dramatic, 2-knockdown 10th-round knockout over Moore. An hour after losing the title, Moore was rolled out of his dressing room on a transfer table. His eyes were closed, ice bag

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Angels Score Seventh Straight Exhibition Win

Mar. 21, 1963 - The Los Angeles Angels today scored their seventh straight win in Cactus League competition by beating the San Francisco Giants, 5-3. Ex-Yankee Bob Turley, whose earned-run average for 13 innings this spring is 1.38, pitched 6 impressive innings, giving up 6 hits, 1 walk, and 2 runs, and striking out 2 men. The losing pitcher was Jack Fisher (pictured center with Al Stanek and Billy Pierce), who gave up 11 hits for 5 runs, walked 2, and struck out 4. Batting s

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Movies: “Bye Bye Birdie”

Mar. 21, 1963 - The motion picture version of the successful stage musical, “Bye Bye Birdie,” will begin an exclusive engagement on Friday, April 5 at the Hollywood Paramount Theater. Starring Janet Leigh (right), Dick Van Dyke (left), Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, and Ed Sullivan as himself, the Columbia color production was filmed in Panavision. In the story, a rock ’n’ roll singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his big

2 days ago

Highlights from President Kennedy’s Press Conference

Mar. 21, 1963 - Following are some highlights from President Kennedy’s news conference this evening: Latin America — Mr. Kennedy returned from his meeting with Central American presidents in Costa Rica “with increased confidence that we will continue to live in a hemisphere of independent, firm, and faithful friends.” Test Ban — He offered no new reasons to hope for agreement with the Soviet Union on ending nuclear tests. But he reiterated our interest in an agreement, predic

2 days ago

Movies: “4 for Texas”

Mar. 21, 1963 - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Anita Ekberg will star in “4 for Texas,” to be filmed as a high-budget western starting in May, Jack L. Warner announced today. The screenplay is by Robert Aldrich, the film’s director, and Teddi Sherman. In the story, Zack Thomas (Sinatra) is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett (Martin) to open a casino in Galveston, Texas. #hollywood #1960s #OTD #movies

2 days ago

JFK Reports on Cuban Situation

Mar. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy declared today that 3,000 Soviet troops have been removed from Cuba in recent weeks but added that he hopes more will be withdrawn by the end of the month. He reported on the Cuban situation at a press conference one day after his return from a meeting in Costa Rica with presidents of five Central American countries and Panama. “We are waiting to see whether more will be withdrawn, as we would hope they would be,” the President said. “The mon

2 days ago

TV: Tonight on “Perry Mason”

Mar. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “Perry Mason,” Eva Belter (Patricia Barry) is caught in a photo leaving an illegal gambling club with a politician. Fearing she will be blackmailed, she asks Perry for help, but she seems dishonest and tries to incriminate Perry. Her murdered husband is the blackmailer. 8 p.m. on CBS. #tv #classictv #1960s #hollywood #CBS

2 days ago

President Kennedy Hopes To Visit Berlin Later This Year

Mar. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy said today he hoped to visit Communist-encircled Berlin during his trip to West Germany later this year. The President’s statement at his news conference came at a time when State Department officials were preparing for talks with Russia on the status of the troubled city. The issue of Berlin, which several times has brought the two great nuclear powers to the brink of war, was sidetracked last fall by the Cuban crisis. U.S. diplomats prepari

2 days ago

Euthanasia Practiced on “Dr. Kildare,” a TV First

Mar. 21, 1963 - Euthanasia is practiced by a doctor for the first time on a television series in an episode filmed for NBC’s “Dr. Kildare” show. The episode may touch off a heated controversy. In allowing a doctor to practice euthanasia, the segment has not only broken new ground for a television series, it has gone beyond the Hollywood movie code, which is generally more liberal than television’s code. The movie industry’s code of censorship declares that “mercy killing shal

2 days ago

Castro on Khrushchev: “I Would Have Boxed His Ears”

Mar. 21, 1963 - Premier Fidel Castro (pictured right in 1960) said in an interview published in Paris today that if Premier Khrushchev (left) had come to Cuba after his withdrawal of Soviet missiles last fall, “I would have boxed his ears.” In an interview with the Paris newspaper Le Monde, Premier Castro was critical of Mr. Khrushchev’s action in the missile crisis, declaring “he avoided war, but he did not win the peace.” “He should not have removed his missiles without con

3 days ago

Mets Interested in Duke Snider

Mar. 20, 1963 - The New York Mets made inquiries about Duke Snider (pictured at Ebbets Field in 1955) today, but the Los Angeles Dodgers will wait 10 days before deciding whether to keep the 36-year-old outfielder. The clubs’ general managers, Buzzie Bavasi of the Dodgers and George Weiss of the Mets, discussed a possible Snider deal today after the Mets had beaten the Dodgers, 4-3. Snider told Bavasi recently that he would prefer to be traded if he could not play regularly.

3 days ago

TV: Tonight on “The Virginian”

Mar. 20, 1963 - Tonight on “The Virginian,” Ed Frazer (Howard Duff, left) returns to Medicine Bow after serving three years for burglary. Steve (Gary Clarke) fears for his own life because his testimony was crucial in convicting Ed. Frazer's main interest isn't revenge, however, but renewing his acquaintance with Helen Blaine (Ida Lupino, right). 7:30 p.m. on NBC. #tv #classictv #1960s #hollywood #NBC

3 days ago

Movies: “Five Miles to Midnight”

Mar. 20, 1963 - Sophia Loren (left), Anthony Perkins (right), and Gig Young are the stars of “Five Miles to Midnight,” opening next Wednesday at theatres and drive-ins. This suspense melodrama tells the story of a young wife who allows herself to become involved in an airline insurance swindle. #hollywood #1960s #OTD #movies

3 days ago

JFK: Soviets Must Leave Cuba

Mar. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured in Costa Rica with presidents of Central American nations) said today the U.S. could not accept “a yielding up” of Cuban sovereignty to the Russians. He said the Western Hemisphere “can never be secure” until the Soviet Union leaves Cuba, and “indeed it must and will.” The President spoke at the University of Costa Rica at the end of his three-day visit with the heads of six other Latin American governments. White House officials de